Interrogar a personas - trámites nacionales para los procedimientos de la CPI

Estado Independiente de Samoa

International Criminal Court Act 2007, No.26

PART V
REQUESTS FOR OTHER TYPES OF ASSISTANCE


60. Assistance in questioning persons -

(1) Where the ICC requests assistance in questioning a person who is being investigated or prosecuted by the ICC, the Minister shall give authority for the request to proceed and transmit the request to the Attorney General if the Minister has reasonable grounds to believe that the person is or may be in Samoa.

(2) Where the Minister authorises and transmits the request under subsection (1), the Attorney General, without delay -

(a) use its best endeavours to undertake the questioning that the ICC has requested;
(b)ensure that the answers to the questions put are recorded in writing and make any other report on the questioning as it considers to be appropriate in the circumstances; and
(c) advise the Minister of the outcome of those endeavours and, if relevant, deliver the record and any report of the questioning to Minister.

(3) A person questioned under this section shall notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other law, be entitled to all the rights referred to in article 55 (2) of the Statute.

Estatuto de Roma

Artículo 93 Otras formas de cooperación

1. Los Estados Partes, de conformidad con lo dispuesto en la presente Parte y con los procedimientos de su derecho interno, deberán cumplir las solicitudes de asistencia formuladas por la Corte en relación con investigaciones o enjuiciamientos penales a fin de:

(c) Interrogar a una persona objeto de investigación o enjuiciamiento;